Нет новостей от разрабов пока, сам хотел бы узнать ответы по существу. Но осенью будут много конференций, может Вингс вырастет к этому времени, просто от естественного интереса инвесторов.

With all respect, who are you mister, where do you get this information, last news from Wings blog dated by June 13.

I am so upset that did not buy this token when the price was 0.4$. It seems to me that we will not see cheap OAX never more.

Egypt is to get its first cryptocurrency exchange in September when Bitcoin Egypt prepares to go live.

Offering trading in the country’s currency Egyptian pounds, the exchange is a first mover in a country which lacks any form of regulatory framework for digital currency.

Bitcoin Egypt co-founder Rami Khalil told Reuters today:

    "We're still waiting on the Egyptian government to set some kind of regulations [...] Without any laws, Bitcoin is not legal money in Egypt. Cryptoassets are happening whether [the Egyptian government] joins in or not. And by not joining they're missing out on a very big market.”

Like multiple economies around the world, Egypt’s citizens are struggling in the face of a rapidly declining national currency. The Egyptian pound has dropped by 50 percent since Nov. 2016, a tale repeated in other politically unstable countries such as Venezuela.

Egyptian Bitcoin enthusiasts have faced significant barriers when trying to purchase digital currency. Because of the weakness of Egypt’s currency, most foreign exchanges do not offer trading pairs between Bitcoin and the Egyptian pound. Bitcoin Egypt co-founder Omar Abdelrasoul explained to local news resource Albawaba:

    “We got the idea after we saw that there were lots of people in Egypt who wanted to trade cryptocurrencies but they were a hard time doing it on international exchanges as they were unable to buy coins using EGP.”

Authorities have taken a hardline stance towards the nascent technology this year, issuing a statement suggesting - somewhat ironically - that dealing in any currency other than pound would cause “instability.”

>>> https://cointelegraph.com/news/egypts-first-bitcoin-exchange-prepares-for-lift-off

Bank of Canada research consultant Warren E. Weber proposes a financial system that uses the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as the standard currency instead of the fiat currencies.

In his 37-page long research report, Weber referred the digital currency as the “Bitcoin standard.”

Major points of the report

In his report, Weber examined the similarities between the gold standard and Bitcoin standard.

Among the most glaring alikeness between gold and Bitcoin is the absence of control of central banks or monetary authorities, as well as the limit of their supply.

Under Bitcoin’s algorithm, there are only 21 mln tokens that are allowed to be mined and circulated, while the amount of gold on earth can only be found in finite quantities.

The report also showed that like gold, there will also be three distinct media of exchanges under the Bitcoin standard.

Under the standard, Bitcoin will become the main currency, while there will be fiduciary currencies that will be issued by the central banks of different countries, as well as fiduciary currencies like banknotes or deposits that will be issued by commercial banks.

Expected benefits of the Bitcoin standard

Weber’s report also cited the possible economic benefits of adopting the Bitcoin standard. One major benefit is that the people will be able to forecast the price level of the digital currency more easily due to the “known, deterministic rate” at which the cryptocurrency is established.

Another key benefit is that the investment resources that are presently allocated to hedging against fluctuations in the currency exchange rates will be freed up and can be used more productively.

Weber, however, believes that the Bitcoin standard will not become a reality due to the expected heavy opposition that will be raised by central banks and governments around the world.

    “If the Bitcoin standard becomes real, neither the governments nor the central banks will be able to implement interest rates to affect their economies, neither could they generate seigniorage revenues obtained from their ability to ‘almost costlessly create money.”

>>> https://cointelegraph.com/news/bank-of-canada-consultant-proposes-bitcoin-based-financial-system

South Korea’s largest bitcoin exchange, Bithumb, is seeing unprecedented business growth and has opened a large customer support counter for in-person support.

New Customer Service Center

South Korea’s largest bitcoin exchange, Bithumb, announced on Wednesday that it has opened a new customer service center which features 24-hour customer support as well as service counters for one-on-one interaction between customers and professional counselors. The exchange described:

        "Through ‘one-on-one consultation counters,’ we will provide you with specialized consulting services from virtual currency transaction methods to diagnosis and follow-up management, and will solve all your questions about virtual currency trading."

Customers can walk up to the banking teller-like service counters and receive support from counselors one-on-one. The exchange expects the face-to-face consultation model to provide more rapid and in-depth customer service and increase customer satisfaction.

The new customer service center is located on the 5th floor of the Seongbo Yeoksam Building near Gangnam Station in Seoul. It has a floor space of approximately 10,675 square feet. Currently, there are approximately 200 customer support personnel, according to the announcement, but the exchange says that it will not hesitate to increase this number to 250 if there is enough demand, so it can respond to customers’ inquiries quickly.

The new service center is in addition to the exchange’s two existing customer support centers located in the headquarters; one of which was added last month. The one-on-one consultation counters are open on weekdays from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm.

The new customer service center is located on the 5th floor of the Seongbo Yeoksam Building near Gangnam Station in Seoul. It has a floor space of approximately 10,675 square feet. Currently, there are approximately 200 customer support personnel, according to the announcement, but the exchange says that it will not hesitate to increase this number to 250 if there is enough demand, so it can respond to customers’ inquiries quickly.

The new service center is in addition to the exchange’s two existing customer support centers located in the headquarters; one of which was added last month. The one-on-one consultation counters are open on weekdays from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm.

>>> https://news.bitcoin.com/bithumb-walk-in-customer-service-center-unprecedented-growth/

Hi Sylon, i see that stakes for 1st signature bounty week had not been counted yet. I was not participated in 1st week, today is Friday, and i hope today`s posts will be refer to second bounty week. Thank you.

#JOIN

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A series of email correspondence from 2009-2011 with the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has recently surfaced on the Internet. An anonymous researcher, CipherionX, posted the emails on the bitcointalk forum on August 11th, having retrieved them from the former Bitcoin Core developer Mike Hearn.

Curiously, the first email and reply were already shared on the Bitcoin Foundation website years ago, but Hearn had mistakenly thought that following conversations were also published, having forwarded them to the former Ethereum CEO, Charles Hoskinson, in 2013. At the time, Hoskinson was working on a project to archive Satoshi’s emails.

While there was little in the newly surfaced emails that appeared particularly groundbreaking, they do reveal a few things about Satoshi’s initial plans and thoughts for Bitcoin. For example, he thought that Hearst’s concerns about the US Electronic Funds Transfer Act should not apply to Bitcoin, as escrow abilities were next planned.

When asked about how Satoshi arrived at the “magic numbers” of 21 million coins (Bitcoin’s approximate final cap), he simply replied: “Educated guess, and the maths work out to round numbers. I wanted something that would be not too low if it was very popular and not too high if it wasn’t.” He further conceded that the 10-minute block target was also a guess.

Scalability was a subject from the very first correspondence and a recurrent theme in the emails. Satoshi commented that higher limit block sizes could be phased in once “we have actual use closer to the limit and make sure it’s working OK”, adding that his preference was keeping it down to sizes more reasonable and believing that Moore’s law would ensure current capacity would ensure capacity grows with demand.

The full emails from Satoshi to Hearn in 2011 show him responding to questions about using Bitcoin as a verification tool against spam abuse at Google (Hearn was a part-time Google employee at the time). It features the famous “I’ve moved on to other things” parting words from Satoshi.

Responding to Crypto-News, CipherionX said that the emails were shared in advance of a website being developed on the history of Bitcoin. Planned to launch in September, the website will try to pick up on abandoned projects such as historyofbitcoin.org, focusing on areas including dissection of the early code, profiles of early developers and speculation about Satoshi.

The emails have so far received favourable responses on bitcointalk, which is not unusual, given the popularity and general goodwill towards Satoshi. However, the website is not going to be focused on Satoshi lore only.

“Bitcoin has long outgrown Satoshi. I know it won’t happen, but I would love to see him come back and contribute once again, though I won’t expect his vision to be the driving force behind Bitcoin’s future”, wrote CypherionX.

The software developer also said that he has reached out to a number of other developers. He intends to contact more, despite most having ignored him. Contributions to the project can be directed towards cipherionx@protonmail.com.

https://www.crypto-news.net/unpublished-satoshi-emails-reveal-early-bitcoin-insight/

Charles Xue, a Chinese-American billionaire investor, is attending the Crypto Friends ICO Hypethon, which takes place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Aug. 16 and 17. Cointelegraph reached out to him to discuss his plans for the event and his take on the cryptocurrency market in China.

Cointelegraph: So first of all, we are very interested in how you became engaged in Bitcoin? Tell us your story.

Charles Xue: I had very little knowledge of Bitcoin, and I had many friends who had bought it, and I hadn't done anything for a while. My first experience with the cryptocurrency was actually when the company that I was in asked me to help them to promote their course in Thailand about two years ago.

I agreed to be their adviser and I helped them understand their business better - I think it's fascinating. At the time, Bitcoin was three Chinese cents per coin, so I asked people to sell me some. Since then, the price went up a hundred times.

CT: Have you heard about, or participated in any ICOs? You must have had a lot of experience investing in IPOs. What are the key differences between the two concepts, in your opinion?

CX: Yes, I have been paying attention to several ICOs, and there are many many differences. An initial public offering is a stock offering for an organization or company. But an ICO is generally more like a foundation without the fixed legal structure of a registered company. By the same token, you don't have ACC and you don't have anyone monitor you.

CT: From an investor’s standpoint, which is more risky: ICO or IPO?

CX: Certainly ICOs have a lot more risk because, especially nowadays, there are a great many deals. Too many ICOs are popping up on the street, and as far as I know, some of them are done by people who are simply not ready - they don't have a solid CX list, they don't have solid or even basic experience, and they don’t have solid tools. So a lot of them are just counting on hype to carry them.

CT: What do you think will the likely regulatory framework for ICOs be? Will they become completely legal, or are they going to remain in the current gray area?

CX: It's very hard to say. I think the authorities are certainly watching what is happening. Currently, I think that it’s not such a popular thing as to cause widespread tension, but I think eventually the government will do something. But what they will do is hard to say.

CT: Imagine yourself in a government position. What would you do?

CX: What I would suggest is to keep trying, learning and experimenting. I think the government's biggest concern is that some naive people are going to invest a lot of their money in this speculative market and lose. So the qualification for the investor would be always a concern, from a government’s standpoint.

Number two is how do I make the industry more self-disciplined? Self-discipline needs to be promoted and it needs to be rewarded.

CT: As an investor, how would you choose which ICO to invest in?

CX: I just have to see the team, it's not different from when I invest in a regular company. I'll talk to the owners, I'll talk to the team, I'll have to go through their business plans, I’ll have to ensure that they have their solid pack of knowledge, and I’ll go through a lot of due diligence. Following the due diligence is the key.

CT: So you are coming to the Hypethon in Saint Petersburg on August 16 and 17. What are your plans for the event?

CX: My goal is to get to know the people from around the world and then listen to their perspective. I'll try to meet founders of the ICOs and I'd like to learn from them and their successes and mistakes. I'll try to learn my lessons and bring them back to China.

CT: So about China - what do you think about their perspectives on the Bitcoin market? Will they spearhead its development?

CX: I don't think so. Everything can happen, but I think it might take some time.

CT: But the major shares of mining power and trading volume are located in China. Don’t you think that that will have some impact?

CX: Bitcoin has reached a historical high recently, they have done the fork, and a lot of other events have taken place too. I think that they want to catch more public attention, yet the level of awareness in China is still very, very low. The majority of people - I would say 70 to 80 percent - have never heard of Bitcoin before.

CT: So, China still has a lot of room to grow?

CX: Yeah, absolutely. I think the most optimistic estimate is that there are just 5 mln people who watch and participate in any way in the Bitcoin market. I think even that number is too high.

CT: What do you think is driving the Chinese to learn and engage in Bitcoin?

CX: I am a history major so I know little about programmers, miners, hackers, and such. I can only analyse this from a historical point of view. And history shows that Chinese people are very, very curious about anything that comes from the West. A good deal of learning from the West has resulted in a real economic miracle which is unbelievable from everybody’s point of view. I think the government will try to regulate this to protect small investors, that's their main concern.

CT: Do you invest all over the world? Or do you focus on Chinese companies?

CX: Chinese companies are the vast majority of my investments.

CT: So are you going to invest in any of the ICOs, or maybe you have invested already?

CX: Yes, I have a dozen companies I've invested in the last thirty days.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/80-percent-of-chinese-have-never-heard-of-bitcoin-billionaire-investor-charles-xue

Видно хороший офис открыли, 100% рост за сутки, цена почти вернулась до уровня Ико 4700 sat
 против 4290 sat, так что, кто не верит в проэкт - сейчас самое время выйти, а кто считает что защищенная телефония на блокчейне это будущее, наверное придется подождать квартальчик, пока разрабы выпустят какое нибудь демо.

In fact Islam teaches us to treat each other with tolerance and accept the fact that there are differences between people. I think there was a lot of schools and teachers in Islam, which could distort the original teaching. It should be also admitted that Christ newer called people to fight for faith, but in the same time Muhammad wages religious wars already during his lifetime. Please correct me if i am wrong.

P.S. Always treated with esteem to peaceful muslims.

Bitcoin has reached a record high valuation of $3,000 per coin to complete a rollercoaster week that begin with the long-awaited split of the cryptocurrency.

A number of exchanges, including popular destinations Coinbase and Kraken, valued a single bitcoin at over $3,000, an all-time high that is up $485 on the valuation one month ago. Earlier this year, Bitcoin surged to surpass $2,000 for the first time in May going on to almost reach $3,000 in June only for the valuation to crash.

Over the last twelve hours, bitcoin’s value has jumped by over 10 percent as forked currency bitcoin cash has seen its valuation crash by 30 percent. Some exchanges including China’s OkCoin even put the value of one bitcoin above $3,200 right now.

Finally, the surge means that the total market cap of bitcoin is more than $50 billion — $51,737,289,581 at the time of writing according to Coinmarketcap.com.


A Coinbase chart shows bitcoin’s valuation has passed $3,000 per coin

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/04/bitcoin-3000/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Maybe PPT ICO official ending in Aug 15, but all tokens have been sold during the Pre ICO, probably that site has obsolete information. I see the only way now to gain PPT for 4$ per token or wait for unlikely price dump.

Bitcoin Exchange BTC-e: We Have Access To Wallets, Data, Mayzus Handled Fiat

Bitcoin exchange BTC-e has said it has regained access to its data centers while confirming its “main fiat flows” were still under the control of law enforcement.

In its latest Russian-language update on Bitcointalk Thursday, BTC-e said it was currently in the process of “assessing” the data and would release the information within 10 days.

“We have been able to get access to our data centers and wallets,” the post confirms.

   
In a further development, the author of the post - ostensibly the BTC-e support team - “confirmed” its fiat flows had gone through intermediary Mayzus Financial Services and were beyond its reach.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-btc-e-we-have-access-to-wallets-data-mayzus-handled-fiat

Malta’s First Bitcoin ATM Triggers Warning From Financial Services Authority

Malta’s financial regulator has issued a warning aimed to deter cryptocurrency adoption following the installation of the Malta’s first bitcoin ATM. Although the statement asserts that bitcoin is not regulated or authorized, it does not make threats against those who choose to use cryptocurrency.

The Media Coverage Garnered by the Nation’s First Bitcoin ATM Has Prompted Malta’s Regulators to Issue a Warning to Prospective Cryptocurrency Users

The installation of Malta’s first bitcoin ATM garnered significant local and international attention last week. Initially, a local cryptocurrency advocacy group had started a crowdfunding campaign to finance Malta’s first bitcoin ATM. Just days after the publication of stories detailing the campaign, a local Malta entrepreneur installed the nation’s first bitcoin ATM in Sliema.

The media coverage garnered by Malta’s first bitcoin ATM has prompted The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) to issue a warning to prospective cryptocurrency users. Times of Malta reports that The MFSA states that “unlike traditional money, acceptance of payment in virtual currency depends entirely on the voluntary consent of the recipient. Furthermore providers of services in relation to virtual currencies are currently neither regulated by law nor authorised by the MFSA.”

https://news.bitcoin.com/maltas-first-bitcoin-atm-triggers-warning-from-financial-services-authority/

Если я не ошибаюсь Pillar во время краудсейла стоил 4250 сатош, текущая цена 1833 сатоши. При этом на торги проэкт вообще вышел по 2500 сатош. Короче пока проэкт убыточный для инвесторов. Ждем осени. Английскую ветку проэкта вообще прикрыли, интересно какое будущее у этого крипто кошелька.

August 1 saw the birth of a brand-new cryptocurrency: “Bitcoin Cash,” sometimes referred to as “Bcash” and using the currency tickers “BCH” or “BCC.” Bitcoin Cash shares a history with Bitcoin, but yesterday it forked off to form its own blockchain and currency.

Here’s the story so far.

The Fork

Bitcoin Cash, initially defined by the Bitcoin ABC software implementation, was set to fork on August 1 at 12:20 p.m. UTC. Though in reality, because of how Bitcoin nodes measure time, the actual fork happened a little bit later.

Starting right when Bitcoin block 478,558 was found around 12:35 p.m. UTC, Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin Cash miners started looking for a different kind of block, each following their own protocol. Unsurprisingly, a Bitcoin miner was the first to find one, marking the first block that was rejected by all Bitcoin Cash nodes. This effectively realized the “split,” even though no new Bitcoin Cash block had yet been found.

Since there weren’t very many Bitcoin Cash miners on a network that did maintain Bitcoin’s mining difficulty requirements, this first BCH block did not come fast. It took almost six hours, at about 6:15 p.m. UTC, until Chinese mining pool ViaBTC found the first Bitcoin Cash block. This, for many, made the “split” official.

At the time of writing, the fork seems to be more or less successful, depending on how “success” is defined in this context. While there were some concerns about the peer-to-peer network — Bitcoin ABC nodes initially appeared unable to reach one another — these problems have seemed to resolve over time. And safety precautions like replay protection and wipeout protection seem to be enforced as well.

That said, infrastructure support for BCH is still very limited. Very few wallets and other Bitcoin services have adopted the new cryptocurrency so far — this could of course change in the (near) future.

Hash Power Issues

The bigger problem is probably that hash power on the Bitcoin Cash chain started out low and has remained low. As a result, confirmation times are extremely slow, often taking hours.

This should improve over time, especially because Bitcoin Cash implemented a new difficulty algorithm designed to adjust back to normal faster. However, even with this algorithm, it could take weeks before blocks are found at typical ten-minute block intervals.

Additionally, this difficulty adjustment algorithm could incentivize odd miner behavior. It has been speculated, for example, that miners intentionally mined no blocks for over 12 hours today, as that would help them get back to normal faster. And, notably, similar incentives would exist even once difficulty readjusts to normal on the Bitcoin Cash chain.

Market Behavior

As expected, price discovery has been very volatile during these first couple of days. And perhaps more importantly, price discovery is still very limited, for three reasons in particular.

First, as mentioned above, many Bitcoin users are still having difficulties accessing their BCH because not many wallets support the new currency. And even if wallets do support it, accessing BCH requires users to give up some level of privacy, security, time and more.

Second, hardly any exchanges have enabled BCH deposits yet. With some exceptions, only users who held BTC on exchanges that credited users with BCH at the time of the fork were able to sell their BCH. All users who controlled their own private keys have had to wait or find someone to sell to themselves.

And third, because Bitcoin Cash blocks are slow and the chain insecure, even when exchanges do allow BCH deposits, it can take hours if not days to credit an account.

At time of writing, HitBTC is the only cryptocurrency exchange that allows BCH deposits within a reasonable timeframe. As such, it’s arguably the first “real” BTC/BCH exchange. However, since HitBTC is not a very established name, many may still be hesitant to send their funds to this exchange. (Nor does Bitcoin Magazine recommend that you do so.)

Despite all these factors, trading has started, and the market has seen some early price action. Since its launch, the BCH exchange rates on different trading platforms have bounced between some 0.05 BTC per BCH and 0.4 BTC per BCH.

Disclaimer: The author of this article received BCH and has not sold all of it yet.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/birth-bch-first-crazy-days-bitcoin-cash/

On August 1st the Bitcoin blockchain forked into two separate networks producing a digital currency called Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Currently, there’s been a total of twelve BCH blocks mined so far as two mining pools have been dedicating resources to the forked chain.

Bitcoin Cash Becomes the Third Highest Valued Cryptocurrency Market Cap 

Yesterday we reported on the genesis day of — Bitcoin Cash — A historical event that will be forever remembered in cryptocurrency history as people witnessed the Bitcoin ‘community’ go separate ways with entirely different visions. Since the split, the price of BTC has consistently remained stable at roughly $2700. Meanwhile, BCH has been trading at around $475-590 per token beating out litecoin in market capitalization. Every exchange trading so far has had different prices per BCH producing significant spreads between each trading platform. According to popular market cap data sites like Coinmarketcap.com and Coincap.io Bitcoin Cash is the third highest valued market.


Coin market cap data August 2, 2017, 7 am EDT.

Currently, fifteen cryptocurrency trading platforms are trading BCH including Bittrex, Kraken, Yobit, Viabtc, and more. On August 1st many Japanese exchanges announced supporting BCH trading as well over the next few days. Further, the currency is seeing over $129 million in 24-hour trades and is holding the fourth highest trading volume across global cryptocurrency markets. So far the currency is paired with currencies like CNY, USD, EUR, Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT), and even Doge.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-now-third-highest-valued-cryptocurrency-market-cap/

From official STOX twitter i found that 15Million pre-sale target already met. For how long is crowdfunding going to go on? I expected to reach 15 signature bounty post by the end of the week. But for today i`m not ready with job.



From what source is this information appeared? Because it is strictly stated in the terms of sig. campaign:

"2: During this period you must make a minimum of 15 Posts in order to be considered eligible."